Never Ever

Chapter 23

My heart is drumming inside my chest and my hands turning sweaty, talking a long breathe I turned the knob and tip toed inside closing the door gently without making any noise.

The room was engulfed in darkness, I pulled out my phone to turn on the torch.Softly walking towards the table, I look around to find something that could provide me some information.Nothing important was on the table except for some files.

I tried to pull the drawer but it was locked,where did she kept the keys?
I went to look at the files kept on the cabinet.Most of them were old files.

While scanning the files a folder caught my attention, named Major Siddharth Rathore,Papa's younger brother,my uncle.

He died in an accident when I was not even born.I opened the file, there was a picture of him in the camouflage uniform.I don't know much about him but mom says he was really a gentleman.That was indeed true, he looked so young and handsome clading the army uniform in the picture.

I looked at the papers arranged in the file, there was a FIR copy registered by police about the accident.I turned to another page, the investigation says that the brakes cable wire was broken, the car was uncontrollable and hit the barricades around the river and drowned.

I was about to turn the page when I felt a hand touching my shoulder,my heart palpitate in my throat and I turned around to come face to face with the person who had caught me red handed.

Granny snatched the folder from my hands and looked at me angrily.I'm not afraid of her but her look nearly gave me a mini heart attack.

"What are you doing here? " She demanded.

I don't that have any excuse so I told her the truth.

"I wanted to know what is it that you are hiding from me. "

"Even if I'm,you are not supposed to barge inside my study."

"I wanted to collect some information. "

"You get the information,now go back to your suite " She dismissed but I'm not going to give up now that I have her in front of me. I can ask her and then may be she will decide to open up with me.

"Does the accident was planned? Was it a murder?"

"Stop it Maanyata. You know nothing about it", she roared at me.

"Then tell me", I said raising my voice.

She went to the chair and sit on it shivering a little, I went to her with a glass of water kept in the table. She took it with her trembling hands and gulped down the water.She caress the name and then took out the picture, her eyes filled with tears.

I Instantly regretted doing this to her, of course she loves her son and losing him untimely made her weak. But she never showed it to anyone.

I bent down on my knees keeping my hands on hers to comfort her.We never have that close relation so it was awkward for me.She looked at me and bringing my knuckles to her lips she kissed them, tear rolling down her cheeks.

"Siddharth never wanted anyone to mourn his death when he will martyr for the country", I have never seen her cry nor heard her ever talking about her lost son."Both of my sons were serving the nation so I kept my heart strong to withstand whatever comes.But I never thought that my son would be killed by them for the sake of revenge."

I was shocked to know that it was a planned murder.

"Who? "

"Mahendra Sisodiya,their family was always our rival but your grandfather wanted to end this rivalry for the public interest.They too agreed on it and then your grandfather proposed the offer of asking their daughter's hand for your father.They agreed, everyone was happy. But Vikram didn't wanted to marry anyone except Amrita, he told this to your grandfather and he was displeased as your mother was not even a Rajput. We tried to convince him but nothing worked, he threatened us that he will go against us and marry Amrita whether we accept them or not.We were stressed out, as nothing was going as planned, your father being the eldest,making him the heir of the state, if he doesn't marry a princess then people will not accept him. Your father was unaffected by this, he was ready to give up everything.But we needed him so we thought why not propose this marriage to Siddharth, if he agrees which he did. So your grandfather proposed the new alliance to the Sisodiyas about Siddharth and their daughter Nayantara.They were reluctant at first because marrying to Siddharth will not make her the heiress but we promised them that Siddharth will get the Spring Palace and then they agreed.